Historical archive
Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government
In the Historical archive you will find information from previous governments such as press releases, news and speeches from previous government periods. You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.
Content that has been moved to the archive will not be updated and the information is therefore exclusively of an historical nature.
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The six month stand-by period for the Nordic Battle Group (NBG) commences at the beginning of the year. The NBG will stand ready to participate in a potential EU-led crisis management operation.
When the environmental toxin mercury is released to the environment it is very harmful, and i.a. the development of children may be damaged as a result. The Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim, has
The Norwegian Government has decided that all information on state-operated web sites should be accessible in the open document formats HTML, PDF or ODF. This means an end to the time when public documents are published in closed formats only.
Mr. Snorre Wikstrøm (35), study secretary, Oslo, has today been appointed state secretary to Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg from 1 January 2008. At the same time Mr. Morten Wetland has been honourably discharged as of the same date.
BTV is a Regional Cooperation between the County Municipalities of Buskerud, Telemark and Vestfold Counties.
Norway - together with Denmark and Sweden - will hold air services consultations with Singapore on 22 - 23 January 2008. The purpose of these consultation is to further liberalize the existing Air Services Agreements between our countries. Should
Negotiations on replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA) were completed on 14 December. Norway is maintaining its contribution in real terms, which means a drop in its relative share of the total funding.
Climate change is one of the world's major political challenges. Norway, a country that has grown rich from oil and gas production, has a special responsibility to contribute to emission reductions for limiting climate change. The Norwegian
Norway has pledged to increase its contribution to the African Development Bank’s fund for the poorest countries by 40 per cent. Its commitment of NOK 500 million for each of the next three years makes Norway the ninth-largest donor to the fund.
”I am glad we have managed to reach an agreement in Bali”, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said after the UN Climate Change Conference ended today.
The Ministry of Finance will January 10, 2008 be hosting an open half-day conference on structural conditionality in IMF-supported programmes. At the conference, Ruben Lamdany, Assistant Director of the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF, will
Political advisor Annelene Svingen in the Ministry of Trade and Industry will be acting state secretary in the same ministry from a date to be decided by the Office of the Prime Minister, in State Secretary Rikke Lind’s leave of absence and for a
In today’s session of the Council of State the King has appointed Mr. Øyvind Slåke (42), special advisor, Oslo, as state secretary to Minister of Trade and Industry Dag Terje Andersen as of today. He succeeds Mr. Frode Berge, who from today has been
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre has condemned the bomb attacks on a UN office and a public building in Algeria in the strongest possible terms.
The Royal Ministry of Transport and Communications has received one bid in the auction over the vacant fourth licence to build and operate a third generation public mobile communication systems (3G) in Norway. The bid of 47 mill. NOK was made by
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rajendra K. Pachauri will join Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on a visit to the Norwegian Antarctic research station Troll, in mid January 2008.
Attending the High Level Event on Clima Change for finance ministes on Bali, the Norwegian finance minister, Kristin Halvorsen, stressed the need for a global contract.
-Norway is prepared to increase its support for efforts to prevent deforestation in developing countries to about three billion kroner a year. This is a way of achieving large cuts in greenhouse gas emissions quickly and at low cost, said Prime
Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre and Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim are to meet Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on Sunday 9 December.
The fight against climate change is a top priority in the white paper on Norway’s policy for preventing humanitarian crises that was presented today.